I've just discovered my great grandfather was from Island near bekan he married a Mary Travers sometime in the 1850s/1860s so if there is anyone out there who recognise these names and could help it would be greatly appreciated
amk:
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I located the marriage record on the subscription site Roots Ireland. See below. There were also baptismal records for five children: Mary 1855 Catherine 1857 Anne 1860 Margaret 1865 Michael 1871. Below are the 1901 and 1911 census records for the family.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Bekan/Island/1588913/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Mayo/Bekan/Island/724925/
John Barrett died in 1884 https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1884/06332/4815795.pdf
Mary Barrett died in 1908 https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1908/05492/4538278.pdf
Roger McDonnell
Date of Marriage:28-Jun-1852
Parish / District:Bekan RC parish
County:Co. Mayo
Husband JohnBarrett
Wife MaryTravers
To add to what Roger gave you, here's a link to the Catholic parish records for Bekan which are available online, which appear to go back to the 1820's for marriages and the 1830's for baptisms:
https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/1050
and here's a link to a site with other records for Bekan (in Irish, Béacán), which lists the 63 townlands (smaller geographic divisions) within the parish:
https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/bekan2/
The map at that site shows the boundaries of the civil parish of Bekan. Civil parish boundaries are not always the same as those for the local Catholic parish, but in this case the boundaries are the same for both. As you can see from the list there, Island (in Irish: An tOileán) is one of those townlands, and here is a link to the page specifically about Island:
https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/costello/bekan/bekan/island/
If you have access to Google Earth, you can also see an aerial view of Island there by searching for "Island, Bekan, Mayo"
The Barrett’s, by the way, were an Anglo-Norman family which settled in Ireland in the 12th and 13th centuries, where they became fully Hibernicized. Two different branches of the family existed. The branch which settled in Mayo mostly Hibernicized their name as Bairéid, and the related branch in County Cork used the form Baróid. One part of the Mayo Barrett's later assumed the surname Mac Aindriu (anglicized as McAndrew). They settled in an area not too far north of Bekan, on the east side of Lough Conn, and my own McAndrew ancestors lived near there, so I suppose we are distant cousins.
thank you so much everyone for finding the time to help me find out about my barretts
Kevin, the info re Barretts is appreciated! our branch( PGF) is in Cork but many Mayo on Mum's side. perhaps Barretts up there too somewhere. Our GGF's farm is now John Barrett Way in Killavullin.
BAB